The Effie Street reading series will resume on Sunday September 27, 2026 at 4 pm, with poets Vincent Katz and Paul Vangelisti. Light foods and drinks, alcoholic and not, will be served, as always.

Vincent Katz is a poet, translator, and critic. He is the author of the poetry collections Daffodil (Alfred A. Knopf, 2025), Broadway for Paul (Alfred A. Knopf, 2020), Southness (Lunar Chandelier Press, 2016), and Swimming Home (Nightboat Books, 2015), among others. He collaborated with Anne Waldman on the book-length poem Fantastic Caryatids (BlazeVOX Press, 2017) and with Andrei Codrescu on A Possible Epic of Care (Black Widow Press, 2023). Katz is the author of The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius (Princeton University Press, 2004), translations of the Roman love poet, which won the 2005 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. His translations of the Works and Days and Theogony of the ancient Greek poet Hesiod are forthcoming from David Zwirner Books’ ekphrasis series. Katz is the editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art (MIT Press, 2002), and he curated an exhibition on Black Mountain for the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. His most recent book is Accounts, a collaboration with painter Richard Bosman. He is currently working on a memoir about Edwin Denby, Rudy Burckhardt and Yvonne Jacquette and the circles of artists they knew and collaborated with and is curating the exhibition “A Shared Life” on the same subject for the Colby College Museum of Art. His writing on contemporary art and poetry has been published widely. He lives in New York City.

Paul Vangelisti is the author of some forty books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator and editor. His latest collection, Traveling, was published this past year by Shearsman Books in the U.K. while the new and revised edition of his memoir, Detours, will appear momentarily from Magra Books. In 2015 he edited Amiri Baraka’s posthumous collected poems, S.O.S.: Poems, 1961-2014, for Grove Press. He lives in Pasadena and Bagnone (Italy).